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Aids to Thought.-Popular Christianity not

New Testament Christianity. The

Grecian prophecy of the Incarnation.

God's idea of the Church, namely, His

own outwrought fulness, not to be

speedily realized. Every human death.

is a new declaration that nature must

be dissolved, that she may become a

Diviner form. Universality, Unity,

Eternity. Change of air; or the soul

withdrawing from the outer world and

entering into her own calm, holy world.

Christ's arms are below the lowest, that

He may receive the lowest.
The lower,

love descends, the higher, she ascends.

The celestial origin of sin, gives it a

strange potency. God more loving in

chastising, than in indulging us

SACRED GROUND, OR SOMETHING SOWN THERE 177-193

A STRIKING ANTITHESIS ..

Aids to Thought. -- When man turns to God,

more turns to Him, than ever turned

from Him. How God's fair tree of

unity became the innocent occasion of

division. A limb at variance with

another limb of the same body, a branch

too proud to acknowledge the parent

trunk-such are the prejudices of the

body of Christ. Study the unity of

Truth, and you will no longer contend

for little distinctions. Let us not

doggedly abide by our past experience,

but seek rather the absolute simplicity

of the understanding. If we judge after

appearances, we shall often despise

God. How we may obtain more from

a thing, than it contains

SOUND-MINDEDNESS

BLOOD RELATIVES

DIVINE GENERATION

Aids to Thought.-Dire consequences to man

and nature of the loss of the absolute

Increase by loss. Heaven,

earth and hell there are, and division

upon division; but no universe. The

steps of God are a long way in advance

of Heaven; but Heaven is following.

What we are when we are most free, that

we really are. Sin aims to annihilate

God. God cures sin, by sin's crisis,—

namely, the death of His Son

THE BREAD OF LIFE

THE NEARNESS OF GOD

Aids to Thought.-In our new nature in

Christ, are incorporated the laws of

God's own Being. To help us to

sacrifice ourselves to God, God sacri-

fices Himself to us. Humility. How

the best comforters of others may them-

selves be subject to the utmost distress.

Prepare to meet God in judgment, pre-

pare to meet man also. The soul's life

is written in the soul.

CHRIST, OUR JUDGE

Aids to Thought.-Beyond our thoughts, and

beyond our sympathies are the rank

and blessedness which God hath de-

creed for us. Under the limitations of

time, God cannot bestow Himself. A

striking contrast between the history of

the Church, and the meekness and low-

liness of Christ. Conscience; or, the

candle, quenched in one atmosphere,

lighted again in another. The soul

wakes from her night-dreams, to more

deceptive day-dreams. Don't spoil

your freedom by using it too soon.

Pleasure says, 'I am the way;' but it is

the way to miss true Pleasure. The

slowness of the soul to believe that the

dearest life of our own will must be

mortified and slain

THE HUNGER OF GOD

THE HONOR THAT IS NOT

THE DEEP THAT LIETH UNDER

Aids to Thought.-Under the fascination of

luxurious prosperity, nations wane.

Drinking healths, whether in faith,

or, formality? We must resign our

Goshen," and go into the desert, to-

wards a better Paradise. Beautiful

distress. There is a Refiner, Who can

transmute our chaos into eternal gold.

The surest way to make people pleased

We know God's bible, but

like the world's better.

sweetest lilies on the graves of our

former selves .

THE ESSENTIALS TOWARDS THE END, ARE

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